Team Sky came under fresh attack from MPs on Tuesday night after a letter to the Culture, Media and Sport select committee raised more concerns over the jiffy bag controversy.

While UK Anti-Doping are investigating an allegation that a medical package delivered to the French Alps for Sir Bradley Wiggins in June 2011 contained a banned steroid, Team Sky insist it contained a legal decongestant called Fluimucil, although they have no records to prove it.

And they have now revealed the Fluimucil was purchased two months earlier from a pharmacy in Yverdon, Switzerland, 160 miles from La Toussuire where the package was taken.

Team Sky revealed they sourced Fluimucil, given to Sir Bradley Wiggins, from Swiss pharmacy

Simon Cope delivered the medical package of Fluimucil despite their supplier being closer

Sky could have had Fluimucil delivered directly from their supplier but instead Simon Cope was asked to travel by train from the south coast to Manchester to collect the medical package before flying out to Geneva three days later and then driving 111 miles to La Toussuire.

On Tuesday night, select committee chairman Damian Collins MP said: 'It makes it even less clear now why the package had to be collected from Manchester . . . when we now know it was being sourced from a Swiss pharmacy just two or three hours' drive away,' he said. 'The more we know about the package, the less sense any of it makes.'

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Collins has already said the credibility of Sky and British Cycling is 'in tatters' after it emerged the doctor who ordered the package — Richard Freeman — did not follow Sky protocols by keeping a record of the drug administered to Wiggins in June 2011.

And a response to questions about how many riders were prescribed triamcinolone — the banned corticosteroid at the centre of the Wiggins medical exemption storm — raised further concerns for Collins and his colleagues.

Dr Richard Freeman did not follow Team Sky's medical record-keeping protocols in 2011

When asked how many of the reported 55 ampoules of triamcinolone were given to riders, Sky said 'less than 10' were administered between 2010 and 2013, but would not answer how many riders had been given it, on the grounds of confidentiality.

Collins said: 'I don't understand how it would be a breach of medical confidentiality to tell us how many of their riders have been treated with triamcinolone. Surely it is now an issue to reveal the number unless it was actually only given to one rider.'

Wiggins told The Guardian last September that he had never had triamcinolone injections out of competition, which would mean he was only given it on the three occasions he had a medical exemption for the treatment of allergies — including before the 2012 Tour de France he won.

It is alleged that Wiggins (left) was given an injection of triamcinolone in 2011

In December, Wiggins's then coach Shane Sutton was asked by the select committee if he was aware of any other rider on Team Sky using a drug that has a history of abuse in cycling because it can aid weight loss and recovery. Sutton said he was not.

Talking to Sportsmail on Tuesday night, Collins also took issue with the way Sky are laying the blame at the feet of Freeman, who is now the British Cycling doctor.

'These are Team Sky policies and protocols,' said Collins. 'Who was responsible for making sure they were enforced?'

Wiggins and Team Sky deny the claims regarding the drug triamcinolone at the 2011 Dauphine